> Wouldn't the schema and protocol spec be shorter if version was outside > "operation", i.e. Yes, but SOAP expects one element to be within <env:Body> (as far as I can recall) So it would try to find a 'version' operation to handle (if it even got that far before complaining) Rob -- ,'/:. Dr Robert Sanderson ([log in to unmask]) ,'-/::::. http://www.o-r-g.org/~azaroth/ ,'--/::(@)::. Special Collections and Archives, extension 3142 ,'---/::::::::::. Nebmedes: http://nebmedes.o-r-g.org:8000/ ____/:::::::::::::. I L L U M I N A T I